Steve Paxton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.
-- Steve Paxton

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With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the â€˜otherâ€™ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.
-- Steve Paxton

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Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.
-- Steve Paxton

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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.
You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.
When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.
Women add zest to the unlicensed hours.
Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

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